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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    Commercial push blocks can be both complex and expensive. This one...

    https://www.rockler.com/micro-jig-gr...-handle-bridge

    costs $100, way too much for the average home shop. Nevertheless, it provides some interesting design ideas for someone who wants to build his own.
    Thumbed a few pages there. Hard to imagine a craftsperson dependent on commercial ornate "solutions", having any bit of a related workshop without vision. Or an internet connection. Meanwhile they capitalize on TAS (tool acquisition syndrome), decorating mancaves.
    But Christophe's solution is proper in my book; being an enclosed handle, versus a stick handle.

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    Wood grain being what it is, making a push-stick is going to interrupt grain at handle or hook. Either invites accident; a loop handle has some degree of buffer, one a straight type won't. Either way, plywood is the choice to reduce a break or fracture.

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